This week, Sara Wheeler reflects on monumental task of becoming Jan Morris's biographer; and Abigail Dembo reads us an intriguing new poem.
'Jan Morris: A Life', by Sara Wheeler
'He Wore His Leather Coat', by Abigail Dembo
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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In today’s extra episode some more highlights from the PPF+ archive in a selection we first put out last summer: here are a few more excerpts we think you might enjoy.
In this episode you’ll hear David talking to Helen Thompson about Apocalypse Now, David exploring Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, unpicking the relationship between The Futurist Manifesto and fascism, reflecting on Claude Lanzmann’s epic Holocaust documentary Shoah and in conversation with historian Chris Clark about 1848 and the future of liberal politics.
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Tomorrow: Some More Of What You’ve Been Missing
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Today’s episode features some recent highlights from PPF+ where we have just released our 50th bonus episode. In this selection you’ll hear philosopher Paul Sagar talking about his personal experiences of good and back luck; David talking about what changed for Hiroshima and the world in the moments after the bomb fell; historian of film Harrison Whittaker on the link between It’s A Wonderful Life and Sartrean existentialism; Hannah White from the Institute for Government on why British government doesn’t work at the centre; and historian of Russia Edward Acton on how to understand the confessions at the Moscow Show Trials.
Bonus #50 on PPF+ is the fourth and final part of Orwell’s War, looking at why George Orwell feared that the end of WW2 would lead to war without end.
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Next Time: Helen Thompson on Peter Mandelson and New Labour
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Lorena Borjas was the queen of queens. No one had more prestige and authority among the community of Latina trans women in the Queens neighborhood of New York. Borjas seemed to be everywhere: on the streets, handing out condoms to sex workers; in the courts, accompanying trans women at risk of deportation; or in hospitals, helping people living with HIV. For the queens of Queens, a world without Lorena was unthinkable. And when they lost her, they asked themselves: what will we do without her?
Our series podcast, Central, has a new production: Las Reinas de Queens, the story of a group of trans women from Queens, New York, all Latin American immigrants. Across ten episodes, we follow their fight for the right to exist and thrive in the face of raids, violence, and exclusion. But we also join them at drag shows and beauty contests where they compete against each other to become the new queens of Queens.
The first two episodes are available now on the Central feed. A new episode drops every Thursday.
Find the English transcript of “Saint, Mother, Queen” here. Or check out the Spanish transcript here.
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Today’s episode in our series about how George Orwell tried – and failed – to make sense of WW2 looks at his response to the vast lurches of fortune from 1942-43 as Hitler’s plans for world domination started to fall apart. Why was Orwell convinced that the summer of 1942 was the last chance for revolution? What persuaded him that Stafford Cripps was the man of the hour? How did his hopes fall apart in 1943? And where did the ideas for 1984 first come from?
Out tomorrow on PPF+: the final episode in this series exploring how Orwell tried to make sense of the end of the war, from a Labour election victory he didn’t see coming to a new ‘cold war’ that he anticipated before anyone else. To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up to PPF+ now https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
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Next time – PPF+: Some Of What You’ve Been Missing (Taster 3)
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Para celebrar os 140 anos de nascimento de Manuel Bandeira, este episódio reúne a escritora e pesquisadora Elvia Bezerra, autora de A Trinca do Curvelo: os Afetos de Manuel Bandeira (Todavia), e a também escritora e professora Noemi Jaffe, que escreveu sobre o autor recifense na Quatro Cinco Um de abril. Na conversa, elas falam dos mistérios da poesia bandeiriana, marcada pelo jogo intrincado entre o mundano, carregado de erotismo, e o sublime, que se aproxima do religioso. Entre histórias sobre a vida afetiva do poeta e seu olhar para as coisas simples da vida, as convidadas lembram por que Bandeira, inclusive na prosa, é atemporal.
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Emma Smith on how Shakespeare scholarship grapples with gaps; and Muriel Zagha admires François Ozon's noir adaptation of Camus's classic novel
'Book Culture in Shakespeare's Stratford: The Quiney Connections', by Marlin E. Blaine, Lena Cowen Orlin, Robert Bearman and Alan H. Nelson
'L'étranger', various cinemas
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Today’s episode in our new series about how George Orwell tried – and failed – to make sense of WW2 as it was happening looks at the events of 1940 and 1941, from the collapse of France to Hitler’s invasion of Russia. Why did Orwell write in March 1940 that there is something ‘deeply appealing’ about Hitler? What convinced him that Churchill ‘must go’? How close did Britain get to revolution in the summer of 1940? Where did the revolution go?
You can listen to David’s earlier episode about Orwell’s The Lion and the Unicorn from our Great Political Essays series on our website here https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/history-of-ideas%3A-george-orwell. Or scroll down in your podcast app to find it, originally broadcast on 3rd August 2023.
To hear David’s conversation with Alec Ryrie about The Age of Hitler subscribe to PPF+ to get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus. We put that one out as a PPF+ bonus on 5th July 2025.
Next time in Orwell’s War: Frozen In Time (1942-43)
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Father and son Julio and Andrés share a passion for Andean biodiversity. Each in his own way and in his own time, has dedicated his life to protecting Peruvian seeds from various threats, guided by a common conviction: the information they contain is an ancestral treasure.
Find the English transcript of “Against Biopirates” here. Or check out the Spanish transcript here.
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No dia 7 de abril de 2026, o presidente norte-americano Donald Trump deu um ultimato ao Irã que soou como a confissão antecipada de um crime de guerra. “Uma civilização inteira morrerá esta noite, para nunca mais ser ressuscitada”, foi a frase de Trump.
O alardeado crime de guerra não aconteceu. Trump voltou atrás num cessar-fogo supostamente acordado com o Irã. Mas, existem vários outros crimes ao qual o republicado deveria responder.
Ele bombardeou barcos civis na Venezuela, torpedeou uma fragata iraniana matando mais de cem homens e abandonou os sobreviventes à própria sorte. Além disso, tanto na Venezuela quanto no Irã, agiu sem o aval da ONU ou do Congresso americano, o que é ilegal.
Mas quem diz o que é legal ou ilegal em termos de guerra?
O episódio 158 de Escafandro mergulha nas leis sobre conflitos armados. De onde vem a legislação que regulamenta o que pode ou não ser feito em campo de batalha? Como surgiram as várias convenções de Genebra? Como as campanhas bélicas de Donald Trump se enquadram nesse arcabouço legal?
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Jornalista e escritor, foi correspondente do Nexo em Paris, comenta temas ligados a conflitos internacionais na CNN além de colaborar para veículos como O Globo, Folha de S.Paulo, Carta Capital, piauí e UOL. É autor do recém-lançado “As regras da Guerra” (Zahar).
It's been quite a month on The TLS Podcast, here's a listen back at some of the conversations we've had in March.
We hear from Christy Edwall on the joys of being a lifelong bookworm, Sarah Lonsdale on the remarkable Clemence Dane, Julian Evans on two books exploring the link between food and war in Ukraine, and we revisit our interview with the inspirational Michael Morpurgo.
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Today’s episode is the first in a new series about how the greatest political writer of the 20th century tried – and failed – to make sense of the central political event of the century. How did George Orwell respond in real time to the epochal events of the Second World War and how do his struggles relate to the uncertainties of our own time? What did he get right, what did he get wrong and what did he fail to understand at all? How did a writer who had vigorously opposed the war before it started find himself defending it as soon as it was underway? Who or what did he really want to win? And what did Orwell believe was worse than fascism?
Join us this Friday 17th April at the Regent Street Cinema in London for the second film in our new season: a screening of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut followed by a live podcast recording with David and director and campaigner Beeban Kidron. Tickets available now https://bit.ly/3O5rSEY
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Para que serve a crítica hoje? Neste episódio, a escritora Beatriz Resende, professora emérita da Faculdade de Letras da UFRJ, fala sobre o seu novo livro Crítica Insubmissa (Mapalab). Na conversa, ela conta como vê o estado atual da crítica literária, defende que criticar não é agredir, mas conversar a partir de experiências de vida, e ainda lembra do convívio com a crítica Heloisa Teixeira, figura central em discussões sobre o feminismo e a literatura brasileira contemporânea. Apoio: Lei Rouanet Assine a Quatro Cinco Um por R$ 10/mês: https://bit.ly/Assine451 Seja um Ouvinte Entusiasta e apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
This week, Emily Herring explains why we all need to take it a bit easier; and Ana Alicia Garza on the novelist whose ancestor inspired a Victorian classic.
'In Defence of Leisure: Experiments in living with Marion Milner', by Akshi Singh
'The Brain at Rest: Why doing nothing can change your life', by Joseph Jebelli
Oliver Twist & Me: The true story of Dickens's best-loved novel', by Nicholas Blincoe
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Today’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Regent Street Cinema in London: David talks to author and journalist James Marriott about Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan, which dissects the lives, loves and reading habits of a group of well-to-do young New Yorkers during deb party season. It is a film about being young and feeling old and fearing that you don’t have a future any more. Is it all over for the UHBs – the urban haute bourgeoisie? Has history left them behind? Or can one more drink, one more after-party and one more conversation about Jane Austen show them the way to a better tomorrow?
Join us on Friday 17th April at the Regent Street Cinema in London for the next film in our spring and summer season: a screening of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut followed by a live podcast recording with David and director and campaigner Beeban Kidron. Tickets available now https://bit.ly/3O5rSEY
And find details of all our upcoming film events here https://www.ppfideas.com/events
You can find out everything you need to know about this podcast – who we are, what we do, plus merch, events and full lists of all episodes and PPF+ bonus episodes on our website https://www.ppfideas.com
Next Time: Orwell’s War
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